Thursday, October 13, 2011

Oct 12, 13, 2011 Chicago, Il

We went for a nice walk on Salt Creek. The weather is still beautiful

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salt creek

Bridgette had a family post wedding celebration for us at her house. They gave us a much appreciated gift of gas cards for the bus.

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the beautiful rose bouquet Sadie made me, champagne toast

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having our cake and eating it too, A few of the guests, Maggie and Nora

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Mike and Kathy(his sister), Kristen and Pat-it was their 3rd wedding anniversary, they dropped over after going out to dinner, Kristen borrowed my bouquet for the photo

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Dean, Linda and Ben, John bagging  the low point in Wisconsin on the beach of Lake Michigan

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Franks Diner in Kenosha, Wi, the diner your mother warned you about, John at the counter, it was an old railroad dining car. Franks is known for its garbage plates. A massive pile of hash browns, vegetables, meats, cheese and 5 eggs.

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  they also have a challenge(above) to win a t-shirt. John found the diner on the TV show Diners, Drive-ins and Dives. the jelly belly store.

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the jelly bean photo booth, belly flops-irregular jelly beans

We took the Jelly belly tour. Rode the Jelly belly train around the warehouse and saw videos with the history of Jelly Belly, the making of jelly bellies and taffy. Plus saw some of the old equipment they used in the old days and jelly bean mosaic pictures. John fell asleep during the tour, I thought it was interesting.

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free tasting of all their flavors, including some of the bean boozled flavors-patterned after the Bert’s beans from Harry Potter books, not sure if you can read the flavors, but there is grass, earthworms, earwax, dirt boogers, black pepper,vomit,soap, sausage, rotten egg in the tasting boxes and on the bean boozled them make some bad tasting beans and some good ones that look the same. Skunk Spray-Licorice,pencil shavings-banana, Rotten egg-buttered popcorn, toothpaste-berry blue,canned dog food-chocolate pudding, barf-peach, booger-juicy pear, moldy cheese-Carmel corn, baby wipes-coconut and centipede-strawberry jam

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last but no least the jelly belly train engine. we brought Bridget and Sean jelly bellies. Sean got the bean boozled and Bridget got nice flavored beans. They are wearing the hats we had to wear in the warehouse.

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Dinner at Nora and Bens-clockwise Bridget, Ben, Sean, John and Nora

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